Scientists feature in New Year's Honours
2 Jan 2014 by Evoluted New Media
Science featured heavily in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list with the following being awarded to prominent scientist for services in the field.
Among this year’s honourees were Professor Peter Ratcliffe from the University of Oxford who was knighted for his services to Clinical Medicine, and Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientific Officer at the Meteorological Office, who was made a Dame for her services to Weather and Climate Science.
Professor Adrian Peter Bird from the University of Oxford was also made a Knights Bachelor for services to science, and Professor Pamela Jean Shaw from the University of Sheffield received a DBE for services to Neuroscience.
Among those receiving CBEs were: Professor Doreen Cantrell from the University of Dundee for services to Life Sciences; Professor Carole Anne Gobel, from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, for services to Science; Iain Gilmour Gray, Chief Executive Officer of the Technology Strategy Board for services to Science, Technology and Innovation; Professor Douglas Bruce Kell, former Chief executive of the BBSRC for services to Science and Research; and Professor Peter Wilson MacFarlane from the University of Glasgow for services to Healthcare.
Professor Nigel Leslie Brown from the University of Edinburgh and Professor Elizabeth Matilda Tansey from Queen Mary University of London were made OBEs for services to Science and services to Research in Medical Sciences and to the Public Understanding of Science respectively.
Those awarded the MBE included: Dr Barbara Helen Knowles, Senior Science Policy Adviser at the Society of Biology for services to Science Communication and the Environment; Professor Dominic Rhodes, a Research Fellow at the National Nuclear Laboratory, and Professor Paul Alan Tyler of the University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre, both for services to Science; and John Hall, Head of Operations at the British Antarctic Survey, for services to the organisation.
The Order of Merit – an exclusive club which allows only 24 members at any one time – was awarded to world-renowned heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. He joins current living members Sir David Attenborough, biophysicist Sir Aaron Klug and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
